scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Cancer immunotherapy – revisited

TLDR
The recent positive results of clinical trials with novel immunoactive drugs as well as the unexpected finding of a positive interaction between immunotherapy and chemotherapy may herald a new era for the immunotherapy of cancer.
Abstract
Our insight into antitumour immune responses has increased considerably during the past decades, yet the development of immunotherapy as a treatment modality for cancer has been hampered by several factors. These include difficulties in the selection of the optimal dose and schedule, the methods of evaluation, and financial support. Although durable clinical remissions have been observed with various immunotherapeutic strategies, the percentage of patients who benefited from these interventions has remained too small to justify the general use of such strategies. However, the recent positive results of clinical trials with novel immunoactive drugs as well as the unexpected finding of a positive interaction between immunotherapy and chemotherapy may herald a new era for the immunotherapy of cancer.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Development of Potent Immune Modulators Targeting Stimulator of Interferon Genes Receptor.

TL;DR: Intravenous injection of compounds 4a and 4c significantly decreased tumor volume in a CT26 murine colorectal carcinoma model, and the immunological memory-derived cancer inhibition was observed in 4c-treated mouse models.
Journal ArticleDOI

Dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

TL;DR: Preclinical and clinical efforts towards the application of dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer are reviewed.
Book ChapterDOI

A New Approach to Cancer Therapy: The Tumor Microenvironment as Target

TL;DR: How key interactions between tumor cells and surrounding mesenchymal and immune cells in the TME can promote tumor progression is reviewed and it highlights cellular and molecular elements that might represent novel therapeutic targets.
Journal ArticleDOI

A biomimetic yeast shell vaccine coated with layered double hydroxides induces a robust humoral and cellular immune response against tumors

TL;DR: The results suggest that YSL, integrating a yeast shell to mimic natural pathogens and LDH with high antigen-loading capacity and lysosome escape, is a promising tumor vaccine platform for rapid, effective and strong induction of both humoral and cellular immune responses.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors

TL;DR: A model by which a combined assessment of all existing lesions, characterized by target lesions and nontarget lesions, is used to extrapolate an overall response to treatment is proposed, which is largely validated by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Group and integrated into the present guidelines.
Journal ArticleDOI

A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA.

TL;DR: It is shown that cellular response to CpG DNA is mediated by a Toll-like receptor, TLR9, and vertebrate immune systems appear to have evolved a specific Toll- like receptor that distinguishes bacterial DNA from self-DNA.
Related Papers (5)